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StormCloud
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Jan 11, 2016
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Failover?

We have two of the ReadyNAS 516's on the same LAN. We are replacing an existing Windows 2008 server.    We want to have the primary NAS for storage and the 2nd as a backup (really as a failover- an...
  • StormCloud's avatar
    Mar 11, 2016

    We set this up using RSYNC for each share to automatically run hourly. If the main RN fails and is no longer on the network, we will rename the secondary to the same name as the primary and reboot. 

     

    User accounts and passwords do need to be re-established. 

     

    Once the secondary NAS is running with the primary name, users can connect again using the same mappings. If the password is different they will need to login again. 

     

    We did not need to change the IP address. Just be care when if you bring up the origional NAS that the two devices don't have the same names.

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